U.S. and Canada

In defense of peoples’ power

Part 4: Capitalism profits from guns, war & reaction Violence and defense against violence are life-and-death social questions for those…

January 3, 2013

Fiscal axe aimed at Social Security

Struggle can still stop austerity cuts As we write, the new year has begun. Congress has not yet voted on…

January 2, 2013

What fiscal cliff?

Taken from a Dec. 11 audio column at prisonradio.org. From every TV and radio news broadcast, the words “fiscal cliff”…

January 2, 2013

Emancipation Proclamation and Night Watch

Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Effective…

January 2, 2013

Postal hunger strike targets Congress

Washington, D.C. — Postal workers carried out a six-day encampment and hunger strike once again in Washington, D.C. This time they…

January 2, 2013

Detroit charter school teachers go union

Seventy percent of the teachers at the César Chávez Academy in Detroit have signed up to join the American Federation…

January 2, 2013

Origins of Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ union-busting law

The passage of the union-busting “right-to-work” law in Michigan is a severe legal setback for the labor movement and for…

December 21, 2012

Hit by the capitalist crisis, ‘youth globally are fighting back’

  Following is a talk by Ben Carroll of the Durham, N.C., branch of Workers World Party to WWP’s National…

December 21, 2012

Manning picked as Person of the Year

By an overwhelming vote of its online readers, the British newspaper The Guardian has been forced to name U.S. political…

December 21, 2012

Charleston, S.C., port shutdown blocks ship loaded with Walmart textiles

Charleston, S.C., Dec. 20  — At 6:00 a.m. today, more than 25 community members and union members from across South Carolina…

December 20, 2012